Genomation: a toolkit to summarize, annotate and visualize genomic intervals.

Authors :: Akalin A
Franke V
Vlahoviček K
Mason CE
Schübeler D
Source :: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) [Bioinformatics] 2015 Apr 01; Vol. 31 (7), pp. 1127-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Nov 21.
Publication Year :: 2015
Abstract: Unlabelled: Biological insights can be obtained through computational integration of genomics data sets consisting of diverse types of information. The integration is often hampered by a large variety of existing file formats, often containing similar information, and the necessity to use complicated tools to achieve the desired results. We have built an R package, genomation, to expedite the extraction of biological information from high throughput data. The package works with a variety of genomic interval file types and enables easy summarization and annotation of high throughput data sets with given genomic annotations.<br />Availability and Implementation: The software is currently distributed under MIT artistic license and freely available at http://bioinformatics.mdc-berlin.de/genomation, and through the Bioconductor framework.<br /> (© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)